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On May 23, 6:16 pm, "Ian Salsbury" <I...@salsbury42.freeserve.co.uk>
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> "Sir Benjamin Nunn" <benn...@depro.co.uk> wrote in messagenews:5bj7blF2srlk7U1@mid.individual.net...
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> > "Bazza" <Bazza2...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> >>> Does the cheeky little shit from Human Traffic and Canterbury Tales
> >>> really have the gravitas to play The Master?
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> >>> There's been a lot of crap minor celebrity casting in the new series,
> >>> but you'd think they would have learned from the mistakes of the TV
> >>> Movie, maybe?
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> >> You haven't seen Life on Mars then?
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> > No. No, I haven't.
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> > Assuming he's in that, was he, or it, any good?
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> Both series are available on DVD, I can`t recommend it highly enough. It`s
> about a detective that falls through time and finds himself in a police
> force in 1973 which is rotten to the core. Through out the series we are
> left to wonder why he`s in 1973, whether it`s real or a dream and how he can
> return to his own time.
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> It`s like an s/f version of The Sweeney and often hilarious. There wasn`t a
> bad episode IMO.

I'd go along with that - it was the best TV series of 2006, and is the
second-best of this year (behind Skins) so far - although Doctor Who
might raise its game towards the end of the season. It had a lot if
interest to say about today's society, and also had a great concluding
episode.

Having said that I think it was a little overrated - it tended to hit
the audience over the head with the Social Issue of the Week, and most
episodes could easily have lost ten minutes or so.